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James Leyland Kirby is the real name of The Caretaker, an artist formerly known as V/Vm. In recent years his tireless trawl through obsolete 78rpm discovered in a Stockport record shop have provided the source material for a ghostly new sound centred around that school of hauntology identified by Simon Reynolds. Since moving to Berlin over two years ago, Kirby has been exploring a sound beyond the mottled loops of his ‘Persistant Repetition Of Phrases’, seeking to encapsulate a deep feeling of loss and alienation.
What started out as a concept for a single album, soon blossomed into a triple double-vinyl series, and triple CD pack as the material proliferated. To give some background to the feelings exposed in this music Kirby himself says “Here we stand, twenty years on from the first CD, and our optimism has been gradually eroded away collectively. ‘Tomorrows World’ never came. We are lost and isolated, many of us living our lives through social networks as we try to make sense of it all, becoming voyeurs not active participants. Documenting everything. No Mystery. Everything laid bare for all to see”.

Does anyone know if Last Fm has any of his Lelyand's work as "The Stranger" on here anywhere? Haven't been able to find anything just yet, which likely means that there isn't anything under that particular moniker, but if anyone knows, shout me or message me!

@dikiz
Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
3 x Intrigue and stuff releases
An Empty Bliss Beyond this world
Patience (After Sebald)
Some people on this board would have paid Mr Kirby directly upfront for the releases (sort of, think he wanted the money to invested in machinery) and received nice little emails periodically with links to the new release. I can't think of an artist releasing so much high quality work on the back of something as great as Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was .